Get A Little Taste Of Norway When You Visit This Washington Town

Everyone loves our Bavarian village, Leavenworth. But some Washingtonians don’t know that we also have a little Norway right here in our state. That would be Poulsbo, a quiet and peaceful place located on Liberty Bay in Kitsap County. Our little Viking City will steal your heart.

Once the heartland of the Suquamish People, Poulsbo was eventually founded by Jorgen Eliason from Fordefjord, Norway.

In fact, until World War II, when the military constructed 300 residential units to provide housing for workers in the nearby city of Bremerton, many Poulsbo residents retained Norwegian as their primary language.